"The scout said that there are approximately 7,000 enemy troops deployed for defense in the southeast, led by Chen Army General Ruan Yuxiong."
Hearing this, Lu Chaoyang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
His mother also caught a big fish!
If this piece of information is true, his merits are enough to promote a sitting officer to the rank of garrison general!
Lu Chaoyang looked at Zhu Gaojie and found that the boy was feeding the horse as if nothing had happened.
The source of the intelligence was Zhu Silang. If the intelligence was reported, this young man would be directly promoted from recruit to commander.
If it had been someone else, Lu Chaoyang would have definitely taken all the credit. He only needed to make slight modifications when submitting the report, and it would be perfect. This was not difficult.
"What a lucky boy." Lu Chaoyang's lips curled up slightly.
Only people like Lu Chaoyang would share the credit with their subordinates without hesitation.
"Go and pull out the captured scout!" Lu Chaoyang said lazily.
…
Lu Chaoyang kicked the bound scout down in front of Zhu Gaojie.
"Boy, have you ever killed anyone?" Lu Chaoyang asked.
Zhu Gaojie said nothing, with a shy smile on his face.
Not long ago, he beat to death in public the Fengtian Palace, a second-rank imperial censor of the Imperial Palace.
"Give you a chance to kill him." Lu Chaoyang grinned. Although it was a smile, it was extremely penetrating.
He had seen many new soldiers who were so frightened that they trembled with fear after killing someone for the first time after coming to the battlefield, and the enemy took the opportunity to chop off their heads with a knife.
Lu Chaoyang didn't want Zhu Gaojie to die like this.
So he wanted to teach Zhu Silang how cruel the battlefield was.
"I've said everything, why do you still want to kill me!" The scout yelled unwillingly.
Lu Chaoyang said calmly: "Are you so naive that you think the Pioneer Camp will let the prisoners live?"
If captured by the war barracks, chariot barracks, or city guard camp, they may be used as labor force. But the Pioneer Battalion never lets prisoners live.
During wartime, the vanguard battalion rushes to the front, and their mission is to tear out a flaw in the enemy's defense line. Under normal circumstances, the vanguard battalion is responsible for detecting the enemy's situation, and what they pursue is efficiency, and prisoners will only delay efficiency.
The Ming Dynasty's army had been fighting in Jiaozhi for so long, and there was no precedent for the prisoners captured by the vanguard camp to survive.
After the Pioneer Battalion captures prisoners, they will use torture to extract useful information. Regardless of whether the intelligence was extracted or not, the prisoners were worthless, and the vanguard battalion did not have time to waste time with a tough-talking prisoner.
…
Zhu Gaojie took out his saber and tore off the cloth covering the blade. It was a barrier sword among the four types of Tang knives. It had a long and narrow blade, a sharp blade, and was light and flexible, making it easy to fight in close quarters.
There is a saying in Liudian of the Tang Dynasty: The shield sword is used to shield the body to defend against the enemy.
"Don't be nervous, take a deep breath, my knife is very fast, and you will die quickly and not painfully." With a smile on his face, Zhu Gaojie said to the captured Chen Jun scout, "But if you splash blood In my case, I promise you will regret it."
Zhu Gaojie had a shy smile on his face, but he walked towards the captured scout with a knife like an evil ghost.
The scout was so frightened that he couldn't even shout. He tried desperately to break free from the binding rope, and his heart was filled with despair.
…
"Oh my god, why are you resisting?"
Zhu Gaojie shook his head and wiped off the blood splattered on his face, "I told you, if you cooperate, I will let you die comfortably."
He said with emotion: "But you insisted on resisting and struggling, and you splashed blood all over me. But it doesn't matter, we are even now. I am so kind, you splashed blood all over me, and I stabbed you more than eighty times." Dao, there are not many good people like me."
Everyone who originally wanted to see the new recruits make bloody jokes now only felt timid.
Zhu Gaojie stabbed the prisoner more than eighty times, with each blow hitting the target accurately, avoiding the bones and vital internal organs. The prisoner fainted from the pain more than ten times, and then woke up from the pain. Over and over again, he finally died from excessive blood loss.
Zhu Gaojie put away the barrier knife, looked at everyone, and scratched his head in embarrassment: "I'm really sorry, because I was delayed for so long alone."
Lu Chaoyang took a deep breath and said to others: "Clean up this place to avoid being discovered by the enemy."
The person responsible for cleaning up the traces was dumbfounded: "Sir, how can we clean this up?"
Lu Chaoyang said tiredly: "Dig a pit, bury the body and the blood-stained soil at the bottom, find some dry soil to seal the pit, cover it with fallen leaves and vines, and then use branches to clear away footprints and other traces. It’s impossible to leave even a single trace, so be more precise if you can.”
"That's all we can do." The person responsible for cleaning up the traces was helpless.
Lu Chaoyang looked at Zhu Gaojie who was standing next to Wuju. He had just finished killing people with extremely cruel methods. At this time, he was gently stroking Wuju's horse's back and humming a ditty from the Qinhuai River with great interest. .
"I was mistaken." Lu Chaoyang shook his head and muttered to himself, "Why did I treat such an evil ghost like a child?"
…
After receiving information from the scouts, the team affiliated with the Pioneer Battalion needed to transmit the information back to the Pioneer Battalion temporary camp in Shunzhou in the shortest possible time, and then the Pioneer Battalion battalion officer reported it to the Commander's Battalion.
They must move at full speed to ensure the timeliness of the information. The shorter the time, the fewer changes will occur, and the more credit will be given to Lu Chaoyang and others in the end.
In order to ensure that the final information could be safely sent back to the camp, Lu Chaoyang divided the team into three teams. Lu Chaoyang himself led one team, while the remaining two teams were led by the card officer. In this way, even if one team is unfortunately killed, the remaining two teams can send the information back.
Zhu Gaojie and Shadow Attendant Aqi were assigned to Lu Chaoyang's team.
…
"drive!"
Lu Chaoyang galloped wildly, and the horse's hoofs trampled up dust and mist.
There was some inexplicable uneasiness in his heart, and he always felt that something was not right.
The information came so easily, it was like pie in the sky.
Maybe this was due to luck, but Lu Chaoyang didn't believe it because he had always had bad luck.
…
They were getting closer and closer to the camp, and the anxiety in Lu Chaoyang's heart finally calmed down, and he smiled: "There are still more than ten miles to go, and there will be no enemy troops at this distance. It seems that I am being paranoid. "
However, at this moment, the smile on Lu Chaoyang's face froze.
Damn it, what are you afraid of?
Just in front of the path, sword-wielding soldiers wearing leather armor and straw sandals came out of the forest. There were at least four to five hundred of them.
This is not the Ming army, but the Chen army, the enemy!
"Quickly retreat!" Lu Chaoyang shouted and turned the horse's head.
Then the road behind was also blocked by a dense crowd of sergeants Chen.
Dead end! This is definitely a premeditated ambush!
Lu Chaoyang couldn't understand why their humble vanguard battalion team was targeted by the enemy.
But this is not the time to think about that.
"Sir, I'm sorry for causing trouble for you."
Lu Chaoyang turned around and saw that it was the recruit Zhu Silang who was speaking.
He didn't understand why Zhu Silang said the word "implicate".
"My father-in-law is really unreliable." Zhu Gaojie said with emotion, "Even in his own territory, my second brother can manipulate him."
